1 Jan., 1898.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. il. 
Agencies for plant distribution. 
13. Every nursery where plants are raised for sale, gift, or distribution shall be registered by 
the owners or occuplers thereof, at the Office of the Department of Agriculture, on or before the 
First of January in each year. " 
14, Every such registered nursery shall be inspected by an officer duly authorised by the 
Minister, at least twice a year, at an interval of not less than one month, and in the event of 
the officer reporting that such nursery is free from disease, a certificate in the form prescribed in 
Schedule 3 hereto shall be issued to the owner or occupier thereof. In the event of such nursery 
being subject to disease, the officer shall forthwith give to the owner or occupier thereof written 
notice in the form contained in Schedule 4 hereto, to take the necessary measures for the 
eradication of such disease. 
15. The owner or occupier of every such registered nursery who raises for sale or distribution 
trees, plants, or vegetables, or portions thereof, not suitable for immediate culinary purposes, shall 
give to the party immediately concerned in any transaction, whether of gift, sale, or exchange 
for valuable consideration of any such trees, plants, or vegetables, a written guarantee in the 
form contained in Schedule 5 hereto, certifying his nursery is duly registered, and that the trees, 
plants, or vegetables have been disinfected by him, or his agents, by any one or more of the 
methods prescribed by Schedule 1 hereto, and that they are free from disease, and are in a 
vigorous and healthy condition. 
16. All market gardens devoted exclusively to the cultivation of culinary vegetables, and 
all other gardens so far as relate to these kinds of plants, shall be excepted from the operation 
of the next prece‘ling three clauses of these Regulations. 
17. No person shall sell or dispose of, or offer for sale, any tree, plant, or vegetable, or 
portion thereof, infested with or infected by any disease. 
Fruit. fly. 
18. All fallen fruit, of whatever kind (and whether harbouring insects or not), shall be 
gathered before noon of each day by the occupier or owner, or his or her agent, of any place 
where fruit-trees are being grown, and all pest-infected fruit shall be submitted to the process 
of boiling, or be buried beneath not less than one foot six inches of solid earth. 
SCHEDULE 1. 
DISINFECTION OF PLANTS AT PLAcE or ENTRY AND AT NURSERIES. 
A, They shall be disinfected by being dipped for a period of not less than two minutes in a 
solution of 1 lb. of whale oil or any similar soap (80 per cent.) to every gallon of water. The said 
solution to be kept at a temperature of 115 to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. 
B. Orin addition to being disinfected as prescribed in a, they shall be further disinfected 
by fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas as follows:—They shall be placed in an air-tight 
box; for each and every 100 cubic feet of space contained therein shall be used for 
Plants in pots or in leaf 
400 grains of fused cyanide of potassium (93 per cent.) with 1) oz. of fluid sulphuric acid, 
3 oz. of water: 
Fruit trees and shrubs, 
530 grains of fused cyanide of potassium (98 per cent.) with 17 oz. of fluid sulphuric acid, 3} oz. 
of water. The sulphuric acid and water shall be placed in an earthenware vessel in the box, the 
cyanide of potassium shall be added and the box immediately closed tightly, and shall remain 
so for not less than sixty minutes, 
SCHEDULE 2, 
Place of Entry: Date: 
This is to certify that the trees or plants imported into by 
have been inspected by me, and that they have been disinfected as set forth in Schedule 1. 
Signed : 
Date: 
SCHEDULE 3. 
This is to certify that the nursery situated at , and of which 
is the registered owner or occupier thereof, has been inspected by me this day, and has been found 
to be free from disease. ; 
Signed : 
Date: 
